EmpoderaLIVE'23: Privacy and Data Protection as Fundamental HUman Rights

I was thrilled to be on stage with the for the 2023 edition of EmpoderaLIVE. Giorgio and I followed a strong segment from Joyce Dogniez of the which delved into the intersection of human rights issues and the Internet already.

2023 EmpoderaLIVE: Interpeer and Tor Projects on Privacy and Data Protection as Fundamental Human Rights

After Giorgio explained how the Tor project saves lives right now, my part was relatively simple – I mostly said that I want to make Tor project obsolete.

Below is the full transscript.

Introduction: Privacy and data protection as a fundamental human right. That’s what we’re about to hear about.

The Interpeer project tries to find a secure and …

CLT'23: Distributed Authorization with CAProck
This year, we were presenting at the Linux Days in Chemnitz. The talk was about how to achieve full distribution with authorization in networked systems -- of course using CAProck. The slides are in English, but the presentation itself was held in German.
Impressions from the OHCHR consultation on human rights and technical standard-setting processes for new and emerging digital technologies

Just over a week ago, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights hosted a consultation on human rights in technical standard-setting processes, which I managed to attend the first half of. I live blogged some impressions, that deserve a summary here.

Speaking were human rights researches, security standards contributors, and representatives of standards organizations.

Niels ten Oever is a researcher in the intersection of tech and human rights, and particiapates in the group at the together with the current chairs of the Center for Democracy & Technology and of Brave Software.

of Fastly is working with and ; Gurshabad Grover is a cryptographer contributing to …

FOSDEM'23 and OFFDEM O3 Recap

Unfortunately, in 2023 there were no Interpeer related talks at FOSDEM – after a few years of virtual conference, FOSDEM had a large number of talk submissions to deal with, and ours did not make the cut.

However, FOSDEM is not just about talks – it’s often more about the meetings in the hallways and gathering spots. And so Interpeer was still present at the conference.

It won’t be useful to summarize all the different conversations at the conference. I do want to highlight one I’ve had in the unoffical fringe of FOSDEM, however, at OFFDEM.

Here, was presenting , while I gave a recap of my IETF115 presentation of vessel. We were comparing file formats for …